In this work, a person in a Spanish cape knocks over a coffee cup and pulls down a tablecloth after slipping while attempting to sit on the title character's knee. Other characters in this work include a waiter who delivers "oranges / bananas figs and hothouse grapes," and the title character, who wears mocha brown and is described as having "zebra stripes along his jaw" that swell "to maculate giraffe."  This poem alludes to the grove of Nemi and to the tale of (*) Phil
In this work, a person in a Spanish cape knocks over a coffee cup and pulls down a tablecloth after slipping while attempting to sit on the title character's knee. Other characters in this work include a waiter who delivers "oranges / bananas figs and hothouse grapes," and the title character, who wears mocha brown and is described as having "zebra stripes along his jaw" that swell "to maculate giraffe."  This poem alludes to the grove of Nemi and to the tale of (*) Philomela in saying that a "bloody wood" was the scene of Agamemnon's murder. That reference to Philomela ties in with this poem's imagery of the title birds singing near the Convent of the Sacred Heart. For 10 points name this poem whose "apeneck" title character reappears in several other T. S. Eliot poems.
In this work, a person in a Spanish cape knocks over a coffee cup and pulls down a tablecloth after slipping while attempting to sit on the title character's knee.
“{Sweeney Among} the {Nightingales}”